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Undoing Wh-Movement: On the Need for Multiple Copies
Philosophies, 2021 This contribution presents an outline of the current scholarly discussion of reconstruction with wh-movement, focussing on the Lebeaux Effect (LE) and wider aspects of reconstruction with wh-movement. It presents empirical problems for both the proposals
Jacek Witkoś
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Quirks of subject (non-)extraction in Igbo
Glossa, 2019 In this paper we present new data on a subject/non-subject extraction asymmetry in Igbo constituent questions. We provide evidence that the superficially morphological phenomenon reflects a deeper syntactic asymmetry: Unlike wh-non-subjects, wh-subjects ...
Doreen Georgi, Mary Amaechi
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Agreeing and Moving across Traces: On Why Lower Copies May Be Transparent or Opaque
Philosophies, 2021 Within Minimalism, traces are often taken to be transparent for agreement and movement across them, which raises the question of how this could be properly accounted for within the copy theory of movement.
Jairo Nunes
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Apparent wh-in-situ in Bellunese: Microparametric variation in the locus of subject clitic inversion
Glossa, 2020 The paper investigates wh-in-situ in Lamonat and Sovramontino, two understudied varieties of the Bellunese super-dialect area (Munaro 1998; 1999; Munaro et al. 2001; Poletto & Pollock 2004; 2009; 2015), from a new perspective, whereby patterns of non-
Simone De Cia
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Glossa, 2022 Sluicing has traditionally been analyzed as an operation involving wh-movement and deletion (Merchant 2001). French is a language that has both fronted and wh-in situ strategies; on the surface, however, it seems that French sluices do not involve (overt)
Megan Gotowski
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SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF WH-MOVEMENT BY MACEDONIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH [PDF]
Studii de gramatică contrastivă, 2013 The overall aim of this paper is to test the strong predictions of the Full Transfer/Full Access Hypothesis of second language acquisition. The general question addressed by the study is whether there is full transfer from the first language (L1) when it
Sonja KITANOVSKA-KIMOVSKA
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 This is a cross-linguistic study conducted with Pakistani learners of English in the classroom setting. This study aimed to explore whether the UG Principles of WH-movement supported or restricted Urdu-speaking learners in forming direct WH-questions in ...
Sidra Haroon +2 more
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, 2009 In this snippet, I will describe a new case where overt wh-movement leads to additional scope ...
Sauerland, Uli
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Three Generative, Lexicalised Models for Statistical Parsing
, 1997 In this paper we first propose a new statistical parsing model, which is a generative model of lexicalised context-free grammar. We then extend the model to include a probabilistic treatment of both subcategorisation and wh-movement.
Collins, Michael
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Syntacticizing blends : the case of English wh-raising [PDF]
, 2017 This paper aims at analysing English structures in which a wh-moved subject triggers agreement both in the clause it is extracted from and in the immediately higher clause. This pattern is only accepted by some native speakers, and it is also attested in
Danckaert, Lieven, Haegeman, Liliane
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